If he had intended to commit murder, he would not have gotten caught as he would have had a proper plan. Accused murderer Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock said this in a statement a day after his arrest, when he was told by the police that he was being charged for the murder of...
Khoo, who went to jail in 2010 for cheating, said in the statement that he got caught in the past because he did not plan properly.
Yesterday, Deputy Attorney-General Hri Kumar Nair said of the statement:"This was the arrogance of a conman." Putting the prosecution's case to Khoo, Mr Nair said that when Ms Cui told him over the phone in the early hours of July 12 that she was going to his company, he tried to talk her out of it but failed.
Singapore Latest News, Singapore Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Gardens by the Bay murder trial: Accused says if he wanted to kill lover, he’d have ‘a better plan’SINGAPORE — When he was first presented with a charge of murder, Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock told the police that if he intended to kill his alleged lover, he would have come up with “a better plan”.
Read more »
Gardens by the Bay murder: Supervisor says accused did not show up for meeting with victimLaundry shop manager Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock called his supervisor one morning to ask for help, saying a woman was on her way to the office at Tuas to create trouble. Then, in a three-way conference call, Khoo told the woman, senior engineer Cui Yajie, that he would pick her...
Read more »
Gardens by the Bay murder trial: Accused under pressure from wife, victim for money, says prosecutionSINGAPORE - 'Owe $ Pay $' was a text message that the wife of accused murderer Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock sent him in the days before he killed another woman, the High Court heard.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Read more »
Gardens by the Bay murder: Accused faced demands for money from wife, victim'Owe $ Pay $' was a text message that the wife of accused murderer Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock sent him in the days before he killed a woman, the High Court heard. This message, together with others from her asking for household expenses, were presented by prosecutors yesterday...
Read more »
Gardens by the Bay murder: Prosecution calls accused a liar, slams his changing testimonyThe man who allegedly murdered a woman at Gardens by the Bay was a liar who kept changing his court testimony in an attempt to show that he was “out of control” when he killed the victim. This was one of the prosecution’s arguments in the High Court on Wednesday (20 March) on the sixth day of Leslie
Read more »
Gardens by the Bay murder trial: Accused left woman's body overnight in car's front passenger seatSINGAPORE - For hours after she was killed on July 12 in 2016, the body of a 31-year-old woman remained in the front passenger seat of a car as it was being driven around Singapore by a man now accused of murdering her.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Read more »
Gardens by the Bay murder trial: Accused had multiple affairs, proposed marriage to ‘test' victimSINGAPORE — Shortly after saying that he had never proposed marriage to his alleged lover, Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock backtracked and told the court he had asked her to marry him, but only in order to “know her intentions”.
Read more »
Gardens by the Bay murder: Woman’s body remained in front seat hours after she was killedFor hours after she was killed on July 12, 2016, the body of a 31-year-old woman remained in the front passenger seat of a car as it was driven around by a man now accused of murdering her. The man left the woman's body in the passenger seat till the next morning while the...
Read more »
Gardens by the Bay murder trial: Accused was ‘in full control’ of actions when killing victim, says prosecution
Read more »
Gardens by the Bay murder: 'She shout, I shout, I struggle ... then she didn’t move'SINGAPORE: A man accused of murdering his 31-year-old lover in 2016 broke down on the stand on Tuesday (Mar 19) while recounting the events that ...
Read more »